I’ll give y’all a laugh. Might be long, apologies.
As you know, I transferred from PSU to Gallaudet, in DC. You probably also know that my family is from Washington; I grew up in Bucks County because my dad got a job at General Electric next to the Palestra. Anyhow, my Aunt Joan (mother’s sister) was a distinguished professor of speech at George Washington U and she’s on a plane at Reagan waiting to fly to a conference. Two women sit down next to her, her row, and they’re going to the same conference, Shirley S and Rosemary W. (
@IrishHerb). Shirley was my advisor (it was my first semester and I hadn’t yet been given an advisor in the math department). I happened to be in Rosemary’s Public Speaking class that semester.
Joan: Oh, you teach at Gallaudet? You must know my nephew Jim.
Shirley: I do indeed. Sorry to tell you this but he’s a con man.
Joan: Rosemary, do you agree?
Rosemary: (Rosemary was a very dignified woman, very regal bearing.) Well, yes. But he’s polite.
Joan tore me a new one when she got back. it’s always good to have someone call you on your BS. It took me a long time to grow up.
